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H. B. QUINBY 8v T. C. GLOW. ART 0F MANUFACTURING STOGKINGS AND HOSE.- No. 355,790. Patented Jan. 1l, 1887.

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UNrrnn STATES HENRY B. QUINBY AND THOMAS o. oLow, or LAKE VILLAGE, N. H.

ART OF MANUFACTURING STOCKINGS YAND HOSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,790, dated January 11, 1887.

Application tiled August 31, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY B. QUINBY and THOMAS G. GLOW, citizens of the United States, residing in Lake Village, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Art of Manufacturing kStockings and Hose; and we do hereby destructed and adapted also to kuit a dat web with a part of ils needles and to narrow and widen such flat web.

Our art or method is as i`ollows:,We Iirst raise or move one halt1 of the needles out of \Ve then proceed with the other half of the needles to knit a Ilat web of sufficient length and width to form the upper part of the 'foot of the stocking orhose. `We then narrow, to shape the toe of the stocking or hose, and again widen, joining the widened edges ofthe web to the narrowed edges thereof at the same time, in the manner -well known to those skilled inthe art- We then knit another portion of ilat web to forni the bottom of the foot. Then we narrow and widen again to shape the heel of the stocking or hose in the saine way as for the toe thereof. Ve then lower orbringinto action thehalt'ofthe needles which were raised out of action at the start and pick the iirst end of the knit web thereon. Then we proceed to knit a circular web with all of the needles, until the leg of the stocking or hose is formed.

Referring to the drawing, to illustrate the above-'described method of knitting, it will be seen that we start at the instep ofthe stocking or hose, atthe line a b. The upper part of the foot-web is then knit to the upper toe-line, c d. The toe-web is then narrowed from the point d down to the point e, and then widened back to the saine point, joining the upper and lower parts of this web on the line c d at both edges of the web in the act of widening. Then the bottom part of the footfweb is knit from the lower toe-line, d f, to the line g h. Then the heel-web is narrowed from the point It to the point t', and then widened again back, to the same point, joining the front and rear parts (Specimens.)

of the web on the line t' h at both edges in the act of widening the heel-web, ending at the line h j. Then the needles out of action are brought down and the first end, a Z), ofthe web is picked upon them, bringing the points b and h4 together. line froin ct-toj is continued in a circular web to form the leg ofthe stocking or hose.

' The stocking or hose thus knit is full-fashioned, and all that remains to be done to form it is to sew together or otherwise unite the selvage edges ofthe upper and lower parts of the `ootweb from the point d to the point h on each side of the stocking or hose. There are no raw edges to join, and no seam is formed in the hosiery. The whole knitting is done on one machine in the simplest manner, and thus a good-fashioned article of hosiery is made in the cheapest manner.

Tt is obvious that the knitting of the lat web to form the heel, foot, and toe part may be reversed in order, with the same resultand a mere modification of the process-thus, beginning at the line, /i j, first forming the heel part by narrowing and widening, then knitting the lower part of the foot-web from g h to df, then forming the toe part by narrowing and widening, then knitting the upper part of the footweb from c d to a b, and finally picking the end 7i j upon the other needles,

and then knitting the leg-web as before.

Ve claim as our inventionm The art or :method of knitting hosiery whiclr consists in knitting upon half of the needles of a circular-knitting machine a flat web to form the upper part of the foot of the stocking or hose, then narrowing and again widening the web to form the toe part, then knitting a iiat web to form the lower part of the Now the whole web on the foot, then narrowing and again'widening to form the heel part, then picking the first end ofthe web upon the remaining needles ofthe machine and knitting a circular web to form the leg of the stocking or hose, and .finally uniting the side edges ofthe upper and lower parts of the foot by seaming or. stitching, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. 1 A

HENRY B. QUINBY. THOMAS G. GLOW. Vitnesses:

E. H. BLAIsDELL, Tnos. HAiit.

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